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Accountability
Accountabilty
Accountabilty
Consent violations are often dismissed or diminished, and too often survivors are not taken seriously. In order to change our existing rape culture to a culture of consent, those who violate the consent of others need to be held accountable.
We will be exploring what accountability can look like when we centre survivors and their needs.
Audio Introduction: Accountability
Dreaming Accountability
Dreaming Accountability
Accountability is not a destination, it is a skill we can build and practice. It is an art, a craft, an alchemy we can learn how to wield, just as we have learned how to wield hurt and shame and fear. If accountability is a skill we value, then we must make room and make commitments to practice it ourselves each day, each week, each year. An article written by Leaving Evidence.
Building Accountable Communities
What do we mean when we talk about transformative justice and accountability? What does a survivor-centered response look like in practice? How can we support those who have caused harm without defaulting to punishment? What does real accountability look like? An article by Barnard Center for Research on Women
Building Accountable Communities
Thinking Through Perpetrator Accountability
Thinking Through Perpetrator Accountability
Slowly but steadily, dialogue is opening up around abuse and recovery in intimate relationships. These days, most temporary anarchist gatherings foreground some kind of consent policy, and almost every radical conference features a standard workshop on a community response to sexual assault. This article produced by TransformHarm.ca works through these difficult ideas.
9 Ways to be Accountable When You’ve Been Abusive
Nobody wants to be “an abuser.” No one wants to admit that they have hurt someone, especially when so many of us have been hurt ourselves. In this article by Kai Cheng Thom recounts their experiences as a support worker for survivors of intimate partner violence and how they’ve learned more about accountability. Published by TransformHarm.ca.
9 Ways to be Accountable When You’ve Been Abusive
Conflict Resolution Workbook
Conflict Resolution Workbook
This free digital (and printable) conflict resolution workbook is intended as a gift and humble offering to anyone looking for trauma-informed, anti-oppressive conflict resolution resources. While SO YOU’RE READY TO CHOOSE LOVE is self-published in the tradition of queer zines and open source knowledge sharing, it is in many ways a practical companion to my more anecdotal/theoretical essay collection, I HOPE WE CHOOSE LOVE, which is distributed for purchase through Arsenal Pulp Press.
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